Talk:Key:surveillance:zone
surveillance:zone=residential
Many residential areas have CCTV installed by local authorities to keep an eye on their citizens. I've recently been adding some of these cameras to the map and I've been using this tag. If no one objects, I'll update the wiki with this.
I don't feel that =town really fits as it's not a town center scenario, these are residential areas with little commercial activity.
-- Irl (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Should "area" and "street" be documented values or should they be discouraged?
They have 7.2% and 5.3% of usage which is non negligible.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=surveillance%3Azone#values
"street" would be a merge of "traffic" and "town" right? And should not be used because it's ambiguous.
No idea for "area".
--Tuxayo (talk) 02:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Just stumbled upon a camera mapped (using iD) with surveillance:zone=area. I can't see any use for this tag, all surveillance is for an "area". I'll move mark it as non-recommended.
- As for surveillance:zone=street, I too agree that it isn't needed when we already have surveillance:zone=town and surveillance:zone=traffic. --Gileri (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
moitored nesting site
There are nesting sites of various animal species that are monitored by cameras. If a livestream can be viewed publicly, I think this justifies an entry in the map.
If the camera is aimed directly at the nesting site, the previous tags do not fit well, so I suggest surveillance:zone=nesting_site to use. For cameras that capture the surrounding landscape in addition to the nesting site, I would continue to use surveillance:zone=outdoor.
The purpose of the observation can be made clear by specifying the species observed, e.g: species:en=peregrine falcon taxon:species=Falco peregrinus Examples can be found in this communiy post: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/wanderfalken-webcams/114580/1
I use "nesting site" instead of "breeding site", as generalising as possible, because the site is also observed without breeding success and outside the breeding season. In my opinion, the tag is also suitable for colony breeders (nesting_colony would be even more specific). With surveillance:zone=nesting_site, the (remote) observation of colony-forming insects (bees, ants, ...) can also be specified. E.g. for the HOBOS project of the University of Würzburg.
Criticism and suggestions for errors are welcome in order to improve the idea.
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